€5,300 Main Event Dia 1b | 2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

2013-09-02 15:31 UTC+3

Ilari and the Qualifiers

Nível 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Finnish PokerStars player Ilari Sahamies doesn’t look like a man to be messed with. He raised from early position to 425 and got 3 callers, all PokerStars qualifiers, Grzegorz Wyraz, Bastian Winde Harbo in the small blind and Siddharth Jain in the big blind. A flop of was alomost as scary as the Finn and when it was checked to him a bet of 1,150 convinced the qualifiers to fold. Next hand Sahamies was under the gun and bet 425. Everyone got out of the way.

2013-09-02 15:32 UTC+3

A Few More Level 2 Eliminations

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Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Jason Duval	Eliminado
Dmitry Chikunov	Eliminado
Igor Pihela	Eliminado

2013-09-02 15:36 UTC+3

Break Started

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The players are on their first 20-minute break of the day.

Nível: 3

Blinds: 100/200

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2013-09-02 15:56 UTC+3

Different Kind of Sick

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Tournament Room on Day1b of EPT Barcelona

ESPT Main Event runner-up Paul Vas Nunes yesterday won €205k and is back on the grind here in the EPT Barcelona Main Event. Can he turn national tour success into a deep EPT run? Read more at the PokerStars Blog.

2013-09-02 16:00 UTC+3

Close to Making History

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2013-09-02 16:08 UTC+3

Liv’s Salad Soul Read

Nível 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Just back from the players break and 20 minutes obviously wasn’t quite enough for PokerStars pro Liv Boeree. She was still tucking in to the last of her big bowl of healthy salad and deep in a hand with Hui-Chen Kuo, a PokerStars qualifier from China. Boeree was in the small blind and checked the final board of . Kuo hesitated and bet 2,800. Boeree sytared her down. Did Kuo have the ace? She decided no and made the call. Kuo had no good against the of Boeree.

2013-09-02 16:19 UTC+3

No Help For Helppi

Nível 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

John Helppi raised to 500 from early position and found a three-bet to 1,500 from an opponent on the button. Action came back to Helppi four-bet the action to 4,500 and his opponent called.

The flop brought down and Helppi moved out a continuation bet of 4,000. His opponent called to see the hit the turn. Helppi slowed down with a check which led his opponent to fire 5,000. Helppi released a heavy sigh and tossing his hand away. This hit drops Helppi's stack down to about 12,000.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Juha Helppi	12,000	-18,000

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2013-09-02 16:29 UTC+3

Various Chip Counts

Nível 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Marc-Andre Ladouceur	50,000	20,000
Shannon Shorr	49,000	4,000
Martin Finger	45,000	15,000
Marvin Rettenmaier	34,000
Juan Manuel Pastor	34,000	34,000
Ilari Sahamies	31,000	1,000
Mike McDonald	31,000	31,000
Harley Stoffmaker	30,000
Ludovic Lacay	29,000	-1,000
Fatima Moreira De Melo	28,500	-1,500
Luca Pagano	26,500	4,000
Konstantin Puchkov	25,000	-5,000
Manig Loeser	23,500	23,500
Jake Cody	22,000
Davidi Kitai	22,000	22,000
Pierre Neuville	19,200	-10,800
Randal Flowers	15,000	-15,000
Lex Veldhuis	14,150	-15,850
Juha Helppi	14,000	2,000
Eilert Eilertsen	Eliminado
Kyriakos Mitsopoulos	Eliminado
Andrey Gulyy	Eliminado
Alexander Isenberg	Eliminado

2013-09-02 16:30 UTC+3

O’Dwyer Limps Along

Nível 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Fresh from his success in the Super High Roller, where he finished 3rd for €355,100, PokerStars player Steve O'Dwyer from Ireland is back in action at the Main Event today. He’s proved that he can adapt to almost any situation in poker, so it will be fascinating to see if he can navigate his way through such a large field.

Kenneth Kui limped from early position and O’Dwyer was happy enough to play along and put in his 200 chips to call. There were four more callers including seat 7, Glib Kovtunov in the seat 8 and the small and big blinds. Six players saw a flop of . It was checked to Kovtunov who bet 600 and found his only caller in seat 7. They both checked a turn of and when the came on the river Kovtunov called a bet of 1,200 and mucked when he saw his opponents .